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Drawing, painting, portrait art, color, anatomy, art of the portraitFri, 16 Feb 2018 23:30:48 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4Comment on Another favorite rant: Art education and what needs to be said. by adminhttp://portrait-artist.org/blog/2015/01/another-favorite-rant-art-education-and-what-needs-to-be-said/#comment-1755
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:30:48 +0000http://www.portrait-artist.org/blog/?p=220#comment-1755Thanks for your comment, Joe! The image is, I believe, meant to show the same artist. The first image on the left is what he could produce after three years of instruction in a mainstream college. Then, three months after switching to an atelier, his skills skyrocketed to what is seen on the right. (I cannot verify that this is the same artist doing both works; however, I assumed that it was what the premise was. I could be mistaken, though.) Basically, the image is saying that if you want to draw and paint realistically, a regular art school may not be for you.

As far art schools vs. ateliers, another issue that I was adressing is that many (not all) art schools discourage certain student preferences and will steer them in a particular direction. I saw this firsthand, as did others I know. An example would be a student who wants to draw accurately and realistically but isn’t “there” yet. They are praised by their teacher and told that their less-than-accurate drawings are great and perfect. The student thinks this means that their drawings are accurate. When told that in fact they are not and they go to their teacher in disappointment and confusion, their teacher insists that they should not want to draw realistically anyway. (I witnessed this firsthand.)

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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 21:10:42 +0000http://www.portrait-artist.org/blog/?p=220#comment-1754Good article,
The image in question is heavily skewed toward atelier teaching, an over simplification. The two artists producing those works I would gaurantee went into those 3 months with different ability levels.
If an artist choosing between the two already knows what they want to do then an atelier is a great option especially if the artists wants to create classical art. Art schools are also designed to be catered for a wider audience, not all of whom know which area of ‘art’ they want to focus on and some who want to go into more contemporary, modern or experimental art fields.
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Thu, 23 Mar 2017 05:16:20 +0000http://portrait-artist.org/blog/?p=291#comment-754Hi Maria! Welcome! I’m so sorry that I didn’t respond to your post before now. I hope my site and the book have been helpful to you!
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Wed, 04 Jan 2017 23:31:22 +0000http://portrait-artist.org/blog/?p=291#comment-663Hello there! I am so happy to have come across with your blog, as it happens I am a newbie! I am self-taught, wannabe artist. I have checked out your book, and I will get it as soon as I can! As a beginner, I am looking for all the guidance I can get!
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Sun, 06 Dec 2015 00:29:20 +0000http://www.portrait-artist.org/blog/?p=290#comment-206Hi curioli, so sorry to take so long to respond to you! Thank you for your kind comments.

To answer your question, I would recommend scanning your drawing and then editing in Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements). It takes a little tweaking to get right, but after a while you get used to doing it. I probably should write a tutorial on how to prepare and edit scans of artwork to show online!

Im trying to grow the old artist in me i had a few years back and love reading a few of your articles- they help.

But i do have a question, after i draw something lets say in a white paper how do i put it on my blog or fb and make look hd.

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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:28:29 +0000http://www.portrait-artist.org/blog/?p=116#comment-12The fact is that even in human eyes distortion is present. There are moment (especially in the darkness) where I notice that. When there is few light, I can see with the same quality both things that are in the center of my eyes and things that are in the corner of my eyes. Things that are in the corner part look distorted
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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:51:28 +0000http://portrait-artist.org/blog/?p=35#comment-7[…] (the drawing of things as they are, not the cartoonized version). You can read more pontificating about anime in this post. Basically, a lot of anime and only anime might not help you paint a better rooster or a landscape […]
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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:35:39 +0000http://portrait-artist.org/blog/?p=35#comment-6[…] I will be writing a separate post about that, so stay tuned. Update, here’s that post. […]
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Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:33:24 +0000http://portrait-artist.org/blog/?p=23#comment-3[…] as I said in this previous post about anime, I am a former kid artist, and I know how it is. You want to draw what you want to draw, not what […]
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